The tenth victim
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The tenth victim |
| Original title | La decima vittima |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | English , Italian |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elio Petri |
| script | Elio Petri Tonino Guerra Giorgio Salvioni Ennio Flaiano |
| production | Carlo Ponti |
| music | Piero Piccioni |
| camera | Gianni Di Venanzo |
| cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| occupation | |
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The tenth victim is a 1965 Italian-French science fiction film directed by Elio Petri, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress . The script is based on the 1953 published story The Seventh Victim (German: The seventh victim) by Robert Sheckley .
action
In order to control and economically exploit human aggression, governments and corporations in the 21st century have developed a worldwide game show. “The great hunt” promises wealth and honor to the winner. Players randomly selected by a computer become hunters and victims alternately. The hunters pursue their victims around the world to kill them and advance to the next round. The victims, in turn, are allowed to kill the hunters. The goal is to survive ten rounds - five as a hunter, five as a victim. Caroline Meredith has just survived her ninth round: she killed her hunter as a victim in a New York masochist club. The victim in her tenth round, whose killing is supposed to bring her prosperity and fame, is Marcello Poiletti. Poiletti survived six laps himself; He has just killed a victim as a hunter. He takes part in the game in order to be able to pay for the expensive separation from his wife Lidia.
Marcello awaits the assassin, who is unknown to him, in Rome. Caroline hooks up with a television crew to broadcast her tenth murder, which is to be broadcast as part of a commercial. She poses as a reporter who wants to write about the sexual interests of European men and arranges a meeting with Marcello at the Temple of Venus . Marcello is skeptical and suspects that Caroline is the assassin. He plans her death: he wants a crocodile to eat her. A television team informed by him should record this.
Caroline feels safe and follows Marcello to the beach. She can convince him of her pretended intentions. He begins to be fascinated by her. On the beach, Caroline drugs him and takes him back to the temple the next morning. She shoots him in front of the camera. But Marcello survived because he slipped his gun under her, which is loaded with blank cartridges. He wants revenge with another weapon, but Caroline is protected with a bulletproof vest. Their experiences brought the two together. You mistakenly get on a special airplane in which you can get married and are forced to get married at gunpoint. After the ceremony, the pilot fires the gun, but it remains unclear who of the two newlyweds is now the "tenth victim".
criticism
The lexicon of international films describes the film as an “absurd science fiction comedy that vacillates between satire and action cinema. Socially critical approaches take a back seat in favor of spectacular tension effects. "
The film magazine Cinema sees the film as a "mix of" Gladiator "and" Rollerball "with 60s sex westerns."
The Protestant film observer also discovered a couple of positive aspects in the film: “The strip, produced with a certain amount of intelligence and imagination, depicts a state of affairs in which Christianity is turned into its opposite, as the subject of an hour and a half conversation. Therefore only possible with reservations. "
At Rotten Tomatoes , the film is rated 86% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3 / 10.
background
The world premiere took place in Italy on December 1, 1965. The film first appeared in Germany on August 5, 1966, earlier than in France. The film was only shown there from February 10, 1967.
The filming locations were New York , Geneva , Vatican City and Rome , especially Fiumicino Airport , Ostia , Piazza Navona and the Colosseum .
The film editor Ruggero Mastroianni is the younger brother of the main actor Marcello Mastroianni.
The song “Spiral Waltz”, composed by Piero Piccioni (melody) and Sergio Bardotti (text), is performed by Mina .
Trivia
- Poiletti lives at Fellinistraße 8½, a reference to the Italian director Federico Fellini and his film of the same name .
Web links
- The tenth victim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The final shot shows the barrel of the pistol, from which a bouquet of flowers is emerging. See the booklet on the DVD on the label "Image disturbance", p. 10
- ↑ The tenth victim. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/das-zehnte-opfer,1340499,ApplicationMovie.html
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 297/1966
- ^ The 10th Victim (La Decima vittima) (The Tenth Victim) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved September 29, 2018.